Searle (G D) & Company Ltd v Celltech Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1982
Date1982
Year1982
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

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    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 25 October 2019
    ...and the recruitment of the Departing Employees. 341 Mr Burton seeks to qualify his duties in his Opening at [59] by relying on Searle v Celltech [1982] FSR 92 per Cumming Bruce LJ who said obiter that “there is nothing in the general law to prevent a number of employees in concert deciding ......
  • QBE Management Services (UK) Ltd v Charles Dymoke and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 2 February 2012
    ...compete is formed, resignation and disclosure of the intention is probably the only certain means of avoiding a breach." Defendants' reliance on Searle v Celltech [1982] 176 Mr Bloch QC placed some reliance on a well-known passage in Searle v Celltech [1982] FSR 92 at pp. 101–102 where Cu......
  • Tang Siew Choy and Others v Certact Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 12 May 1993
    ... ... allegedly confidential information acquired during their employment in competition with the company. It was pertinent in such a context to bear in mind the observations which Hoffman J (as he then ... delicacy exists in this area of the law and this was expressed by Cumming Bruce LJ in GD Searle & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd in the following words (at p 99): ... The court seeks to ... ...
  • Smile Inc. Dental Surgeons Pte Ltd v Lui Andrew Stewart
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 31 July 2012
    ...Boon Ching [2010] 2 SLR 386 (refd) Cobbetts LLP v Mark Reginald Stuart Hodge [2009] EWHC 786 (Ch) (refd) G D Searle&Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [1982] FSR 92 (refd) Hanna v OAMPS Insurance Brokers Ltd [2010] NSWCA 267 (refd) Helmet Integrated Systems Ltd v Tunnard [2007] FSR 16 (refd) Herbert Mor......
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Employee Competition: Recent Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 7 July 2010
    ...to compete with them. For Mr Cook, it was argued (para 66) that such a duty was non-existent, reliance being placed on Searle v Celltech [1982] FSR 92; Framlington Group v Anderson [1995] 1 BCLC 475; Saatchi & Saatchi v Saatchi 13 Feb 1995, unrep; and Helmet v Tunnard For MSHK, it was s......
  • Team Move - The Potential Liabilities of the Team Head
    • Hong Kong
    • Mondaq Hong Kong
    • 2 May 2011
    ...of fidelity concerning "team move". The law related to "team move" has changed over the years. In GD Searle & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [1982] F.S.R. 92, Cummings Bruce L.J. commented that "In the absence of restrictive covenants, there is nothing in the general law to prevent a number of e......
2 books & journal articles
  • REVISITING THE LAW OF CONFIDENCE IN SINGAPORE AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW TORT OF MISUSE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December - January 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...v Holloway [1965] RPC 239 at 255, per Cross J. 318 See, eg, Merryweather v Moore [1892] 2 Ch 518; G D Searle & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [1982] FSR 92; and McKenna Breen Ltd v James [2002] 6 WLUK 190; 2002 WL 31422186. See also Cream Holdings Ltd v Banerjee [2005] 1 AC 253 and Caterpillar Logis......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2003, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...of Appeal in Tang Siew Choy v Certact Pte Ltd referred to the following words of Cumming-Bruce LJ in G D Searle & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd[1982] FSR 92 at 99: The court seeks to uphold the obligation of free contracting parties to a contract of service to honour their contractual obligations. ......